noun
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Freedom provided by the cessation of activities.
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Free time, time free from work or duties.
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Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease.
Examples of leisure in a Sentence
What an abundance of leisure he must have!
His leisure time was given up to natural history, and especially to mineralogy and botany.
His leisure was dedicated to geological researches in the papal states.
Her chief amusement during her leisure hours was sweeping the heavens with a small Newtonian telescope.
There young Parkman spent his leisure hours in collecting eggs, insects and reptiles, trapping squirrels and woodchucks, and shooting birds with arrows.
Here he devoted his leisure to his favourite studies.
The new post gave him more leisure and the society he needed.
The effects of a bite by a poisonous snake upon a small mammal or bird are almost instantaneous, preventing its escape; and the snake swallows its victim at its leisure, sometimes hours after it has been killed.
It caters to both business and leisure clients.
The learned leisure which Gladstone had promised himself when released from official responsibility was not of long duration.
A period of often interrupted leisure for study followed.
At one time he was secretary to the Chief Rabbi; in 1853 he became tutor in the Rothschild family and enjoyed leisure to produce his commentaries and other works.
But in central Greece, where, at any rate down to the Persian Wars, politics, domesi_c and foreign, were allengrossing, and left the citizen little leisure for self-cultivation, the need of a higher education had hardly made itself felt.
We may also refer many of his most important treatises in prose, as well as a large portion of his Latin correspondence, to the leisure he enjoyed in this retreat.
At the moment leisure boaters in the UK fill up with red diesel, a fuel taxed at a lower rate than roadside diesel.
Increasing levels of leisure activity were inversely associated with D-dimer, von Willebrand factor, nephelometric fibrinogen, and viscosity.
But from 1087 his life was one of action and vicissitudes which left him little leisure.
What he mainly wanted was the time, the leisure and the labour, which we have supposed to have been given to the gradual composition of the extant Aristotelian writings.
In his solitude he had ample leisure for forming schemes of missionary enterprise among Persians and Goths, and by his correspondence with the different churches he at once baffled his enemies and gave greater energy to his friends.
In 1842 he became an undistinguished but useful successor to Arnold as headmaster of Rugby; and a serious illness in 1848, the first of many, led him to welcome the comparative leisure which followed upon his appointment to the deanery of Carlisle in 1849.
Schiller resolved to devote the leisure of these years to the study of philosophy.
When twenty years of age he entered the army, becoming lieutenant in a regiment of cavalry, and employing his leisure on mathematical studies.
He retired for a time to Weimar, where he occupied his leisure in the preparation of his edition of Luther, and in writing the romance Theodor oder die Weihe des Zweiflers (Berlin, 1822), in which he describes the education of an evangelical pastor.
I work in a place of scholarship and it does not surprise me in the least that Greek etymology makes this a leisure center.
The definitions show so much acuteness of thought and command of language, and the passages quoted from poets, divines and philosophers are so skilfully selected, that a leisure hour may always be very agreeably spent in turning over the pages.
Time at leisure to visit the tranquil island with its unhurried life.
He was also fond of drawing as an amusement in his leisure hours; and Colerus had seen a sketch-book full of such drawings representing persons of Spinoza's acquaintance, one of them being a likeness of himself in the character of Masaniello.
During his later years of leisure he wrote Twenty Years of Congress (1884-1886), a brilliant historical work in two volumes.
The duties of the post were not heavy, and allowed him leisure for a diligent study of Turkish, Arabic and Persian.
He had, however, what so few contemporary scholars possessed - leisure, and freedom from pecuniary cares.
What intervals of leisure he enjoyed from the cares of office he filled up with newspapers and the gossip of old cronies.
The jet, illuminated only in one phase of transformation, appears almost perfectly steady, and may be examined at leisure.
He served the Curia in many and important capacities, yet devoted his leisure time to theological and canonistic study.
For many aspiring entrepreneurs, there is a clear opportunity in turning a hobby or leisure activity into a small business idea.
De Vere Hotels is an upmarket, primarily provincial hotel chain targeted at the conference, corporate and leisure markets.
One of the chief problems of more leisure time was that villagers in some villages had nothing to do except drink and get drunk.
Your well in this case is every enemy in the game (and a few places around the game), and your water is an infinite supply of magic spells to use at your leisure.
In 1764 he officiated as a priest in Dundee, but in May 1765 accepted an invitation to live with the earl of Traquair, where, with abundance of leisure and the free use of an adequate library, he made further progress in his favourite biblical studies.
Meagre as were the results which the earlier thinkers had obtained, the extinction of philosophy just at the time when the liberal arts became more technical and consequently less available as employments of leisure, threatened to leave a blank in Hellenic life.
During his leisure he wrote a translation of Ariosto (1781), and Memoires sur la vie de Turgot (1782).
In the intervals of these immense labours, on which his reputation as an astronomer rests, he found leisure for works of a lighter character, e.g.
Nor did he find, like his fellow-worker, Theodore Parker, the leisure to keep up his scholarship and lead in part the life of a student.
He appears to have laid even more stress on this point than Aristotle himself, being doubtless led to do so, partly by the heat of controversy and partly by the importance which leisure and freedom from harassing cares naturally assumed to a man of his studious temperament.
On the 13th of April 1436, Arthur took Paris from the English; but he was ill seconded by the king, and hampered by the necessity for leading frequent expeditions against the ecorcheurs; it was not till May 1444 that the armistice of Tours gave him leisure to carry out the reorganization of the army which he had long projected.
It would seem that the key to his conduct was that he hated the hard work without which a despotic king cannot hope to assert his personality, and preferred leisure and vicious self-indulgence.
He preferred to be a man of pleasure and leisure, only awaking now and then to perpetrate some act of arbitrary cruelty.
Proceeding afterwards to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he came under the spell of Sedgwick, and henceforth devoted all his leisure time to geology.
Meanwhile, he solaced his enforced leisure with astronomical studies.
Waugh edited the Sunday Magazine from 1874 to 1896, but he had otherwise little leisure for literary work.
His best songs had stolen into print; a collection was not published till 1809, under the title of Amusements of Leisure Hours.